Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:43:40 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manually using procmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708154252.14267A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <19980708113034.B8731@nuxi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, David O'Brien wrote:
> Does anybody know if a way to take a Berkeley mailbox-formated file and
> "pipe" it thru procmail so that it would be processed as if you received
> the mail the usual way?
Haven't read man procmail(1), have we? :)
Procmail can also be invoked to postprocess an already
filled system mailbox. This can be useful if you don't
want to or can't use a $HOME/.forward file (in which case
the following script could periodically be called from
within cron(1), or whenever you start reading mail):
#!/bin/sh
ORGMAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
if cd $HOME &&
test -s $ORGMAIL &&
lockfile -r0 -l1024 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
then
trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15
umask 077
lockfile -l1024 -ml
cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail &&
cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL
lockfile -mu
formail -s procmail <.newmail &&
rm -f .newmail
rm -f .newmail.lock
fi
exit 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst
jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc.
Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key.
PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD
enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null
Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980708154252.14267A-100000>